Eddie Galloway and his crew of seismologists are looking for oil in the western desert of Egypt, but they find more than ancient hydrocarbons. The further Eddie digs into the mystery, the wilder it gets until everyone on the crew, including the Egyptian archeologists, doubts his sanity.

Has Eddie lost his mind, or has he really made the discovery of a lifetime? Are the Egyptians covering up the truth? When Eddie's logical and pragmatic engineering mind puts two and two together, the answer comes up 54, and the stage is set for some startling revelations about the past and some shocking implications for the future.